From the writers, not the commenters.

When did Sesame Street become all parodies all the time?

Did I just read a joke making fun of Girls? Has the taboo been broken? Your lies served a greater good, Brian.

One of the?

Pilot Viruet is also an ex-A.V.-Clubber, right? They seem to be slowly taking over the entire internet (whatever Flavorwire is).

Chances are no one on the writing staff had heard of IMDB at that time. (Although it is one of the older well-known websites and did exist then.)

Oh, Vince, how naive you were.

One-time gimmicks became mostly things of the past post-Discus, but there are still some committed long-term ones.

Actually support for secession was far from unanimous. (Although Butler is supposed to be a native South Carolinian, which was the one state where pro-secession sentiment had indeed reached an almost obsessive level, and several years before in fact.)

I think Shailene Woodley was not yet a big enough name for a guest spot at the time of Season 22 (which is 2010-11, right?). Otherwise I would have believed it.

That game had twenty-one clues unselected.

An astronaut is only a celebrity if his congresswoman wife was shot. (I hope that does not sound flippant about a terrible event in which several people died, but I had never heard of him before that and I doubt if anyone else had either, although the twin brother angle is certainly cool.)

Some people don't care about sports and that is fine, but he is one of the top four or so players at the marquee position in all of American sports (and the reigning MVP IIRC). I think he is actually one of their bigger gets of all time.

Maybe, maybe not. I could believe either way. Time will tell.

I saw an ad where it was endorsed by Eva Longoria and Tony Bennett. Really.

It is not exactly the most original premise (although always welcome if well-done).

I am fairly certain that the video I rented from Blockbuster many years ago had a completely different opening narration by Cotten himself. Wikipedia backs me up that this version does in fact exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Thank you. I think I zoned out for a bit as well.

I think he was already on Jeopardy! by that point, though.

Yeah, I was surprised how many people seemed to think it was a new word at the time.